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by bluescrn 4y ago
It's around £3000 for a high-end 16" MBP. Apple pricing went from 'premium' to 'luxury' for a lot of their audience. Meanwhile, the world is in a seemingly permanant omni-crisis. Yes, there's a lot of grea
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Most scooter-haters don't differentiate between personally owned scooters and rental scooters, and personally-owned scooters (likely to be better maintained, more sensibly driven, and not abandoned in the street) will get caught up in
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by bluescrn 4y ago
This is good. In the UK, personal scooters are still illegal, and the problems with rental schemes seem to be being used to keep it that way :(
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by bluescrn 4y ago
The 'Bicycles are fine but e-scooters are awful' argument comes up a lot, but doesn't make much sense. E-bikes are often ignored or just effectively invisible. (I'll agree that rental scooter services have unique problem
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by bluescrn 4y ago
'E-scooters have safety risks, let's encourage people back into 2-ton fossil-fuel-burning cars instead!' If we want a future of EVs, we need to figure out how to include personal light EVs, not just very expensive full-size-c
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Resin printers aren’t ‘dead simple’, as you’re dealing with fairly nasty chemicals in liquid form, and have to deal with cleaning/curing steps that aren’t needed with FDM. The results can be nice, but they may not be the best choice fo
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by bluescrn 4y ago
We're dealing with a trade-off between quantity of life and quality of life. The absolute best thing anybody can do for the environment is to not have kids. That'd save vastly more emissions and resource consumption than buying gr
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Wasn't Tumblr confusing teenage brains well before Reddit really took off? But yeah, social media sites should be treated as the powerful propaganda weapons that they have become, not just a casual way to pass the time.
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Take away the social media, and I suspect the teens would have far fewer mental health problems.
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by bluescrn 4y ago
> We will solve the charging problem by running simple L2 240V AC wiring to plugs/poles on the street. The problem will be most likely solved by letting a private company with a local near-monopoly on public charing install chargers
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by bluescrn 4y ago
There's a big difference between 'accessible by public transport' and 'practical to get to a workplace by public transport' Most small villages in the UK have some sort of limited bus service, which can be useful fo
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by bluescrn 4y ago
A purpose-designed '15 minute city' might be great. But applying the concept to existing cities, it so blatant that it's just a big stick to bludgeon car owners with, and there's zero intention of providing significant n
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Public transit only works in cities. And only in cities where crime is mostly under control. Many people don't want to live in cities, especially during times of crisis (when they become increasingly dangerous places), and we're l
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by bluescrn 4y ago
> The charging issue and grid use is a massively overblown problem. You only need to charge your car for a few hours every 300 miles. As usual, everything's just fine for the wealthy, with a new top-end Tesla with its nice big range
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Never expected to see a healthcare site recommending WoW raiding! If you're not careful, a game that addictive and time-consuming is a rapid route to weight gain, back pain, maybe even an unhealthy drinking habit... (To be fair though,
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by bluescrn 4y ago
While we're obviously seeing more widespread distribution of footage of the worst incidents via social media, isn't it likely that policing has actually improved over the last couple of decades, as the genuinely bad cops are inc
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by bluescrn 4y ago
A one-off edit to remove a slur is a lot more justifiable than the drastic PC overhaul that appeared to be happening to Roald Dahl's work - which seems to have included purging every reference to the word 'fat', along with ma
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Even if they weren’t directly defunded, they were probably demoralized, and likely lost good staff during the ‘ACAB’ period. Would you really want to remain a cop when ‘all cops’ are suddenly so viciously hated by so many in the media, poli
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by bluescrn 4y ago
You can buy a gun at 18. But not a beer...
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by bluescrn 4y ago
> There's a stark contrast between content they write/share on the spot or discuss in meetings. I'd be worried about false accusations of this. Some people are much better at communicating in writing, when they have time t
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by bluescrn 4y ago
But the catastrophising of climate change is also harmful, and results in people proposing 'solutions' that seem likely to bring about an even faster collapse of civilisation. One 2019 UK report ( https://www.icax.co.uk&
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Yes, drone deliveries have found one viable niche - getting lightweight but critical medical supplies to remote locations. We certainly aren't going to get UAVs delivering takeaways and Amazon parcels in cities any time soon, though. W
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by bluescrn 4y ago
If you don't have a nice clean break, a combination of thread and superglue can be a useful trick for some repairs/bodges: https://www.flitetest.com/articles/Tip_Thread_and_Superglue
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Per-pixel lighting (with a normal map) is generally more expensive than per-vertex lighting (without). But when using normal maps, you've usually got less vertices to deal with, which helps. And modern GPUs are plenty fast enough to do
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by bluescrn 4y ago
> everything creative where true creativity doesnt matter So it'll be fine replacing most of Hollywood, videogames, and pop music then...
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by bluescrn 4y ago
> It's been at an all time high for availability over the last few years. They eventually managed to ban enough subreddits/users to reach a state of reliablity...
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by bluescrn 4y ago
They do it because they can. There's not a lot of people creating high-quality fonts. If you've ever tried looking for free fonts, it quickly becomes clear that the quality is often lacking (inconsistency, missing glyphs, poor spa
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by bluescrn 4y ago
1000 megabucks
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by bluescrn 4y ago
While Twitter brings out the anger and abuse, I think Reddit is more insidious, with heavy-handed moderation by a tiny number of all-powerful activist-moderators, simply erasing entire points of view from existence, giving users a rather di
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by bluescrn 4y ago
And for many people living in apartments, even storing a bike at home is problematic, you don't really want to be lugging an e-bike up/down stairs every day. If we want cycling to be treated as a serious form of transport, then we

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